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  • Lots of cheese!

  • At that time I was in the house with my grandmother. ...

  • That's when I found out and I got so excited.

  • Sounds fun. Was it expensive? - No just 1800 yen!

  • What?

  • Hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese it's Cathy Cat.

  • What get's Japanese people excited?

  • Come on we want to know!

  • That's why we're gonna head on to the streets of Tokyo and ask Japanese people what makes

  • them super excited, what is like the best thing to do, maybe a little thing that you want

  • to take note of when you come to Japan and you wanna entertain your friends or..

  • be entertained by your friends.

  • That is one of the things we're gonna ask today. So don't forget to

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  • What makes me excited?

  • Going to live performances!

  • What performances?

  • I like girl idol groups....

  • Are they rookies or super famous ones?

  • Not newbies but...

  • The group we like isn't too famous either. But they are not totally new so....

  • Medium idols? - Yeah they are known but not that much

  • Which is the moment when you feel the most excited? - When I bought all the goods I need.

  • I wanna collect the official parker, towels and such.

  • I get excited when I can look at my fish.

  • When I feed my fish I think how pretty they are and get excited about that.

  • Instead of feeling relaxed you get EXCITED?!

  • They are not small fish, but big fish. They are really cool.

  • When they eat their food, I get so excited!

  • "Munch" Wow how cool my fish is!? Like that?

  • A bit like that.

  • They jump to get it. That's really cool.

  • Is there a way to enjoy Japanese gigs even more?

  • They have "call" and "ainote" there and that's when all fans become one.

  • I like that moment, when we all do things together. I also practice watching videos of the gigs.

  • I get the most excited when I check out clothes.

  • I like black clothes with some frill like this one, recently.

  • Those things get me excited.

  • Black clothes make you excited? Like "Wow black second hand stuff!" - Yeah

  • Yeah kawaii clothing makes me feel so pumped!

  • I get excited when I see how guys!

  • Especially when they are taller than 185cm

  • Wouldn't that be hard in Japan?

  • For that foreigners are easy on the eye.

  • When you see a tall foreigner you tell your friend "look look!"

  • Does she do that? - I guess she does.

  • What got you excited recently?

  • We came together by train. The moment when we both met we went "oooh!"

  • Has it been a while? - A little.

  • When we met we were both excited.

  • Nice one. And you?

  • Whaaaat?

  • You feel pressured now to say "That same moment" right? - Yeah that same moment I guess.

  • Live gigs! - Live performances! - Live shows!

  • Does anything besides live shows get you excited?

  • Tasty food gets me excited. I like cheese.

  • You get excited when you eat cheese? - Yeah cheese.

  • When I eat pizza and such.

  • When theres lots of cheese.

  • When I meet my friends.

  • You said something nice now.

  • Everyone is happy now.

  • Did you get excited today then? - I did.

  • How was it?

  • It has been a while since I last saw her

  • I went "Yay!" - You hugged her?

  • I did!

  • That gets you excited! - doing Makeup gets me excited.

  • I enjoy using lots of colors.

  • Comparing you before and after makeup?

  • A terrible change.

  • What got you excited most recently?

  • I got an official color certification.

  • Like green has many different gradings. It's a certification for knowing colors.

  • Why did you take that test?

  • I am studying to become a hair dresser you see.

  • I also take corses in makeup. That's why.

  • I got excited when I went to a thrift shop and found something really good.

  • What did you find?

  • This bag here was 50% off.

  • I felt really lucky that I got to buy it.

  • That's exciting girl.

  • I got excited the day when they announced our test results.

  • How did it go? - I passed!

  • It was a test to enter university. You can check the results on the computer.

  • At that moment, I was in the house with my grandmother.

  • That's when I got the result and when I exploded with excitement.

  • Did you celebrate?

  • I celebrated! On that night we all went out for sushi.

  • We both went to "Tokyo Girls Collection", a fashion show. That was rad.

  • It's a fashion show with famous models and idols.

  • How excited were you?

  • Like crazy!

  • Did you scream and shout? - Sure.

  • So you cheer not only for singers and idols but also for models?

  • WE do.

  • How was it? - We stood so close to the stage. They walked past us really close.

  • We screamed!

  • Did you call their names?

  • We did! A lot!

  • How? Like "---chan!" - Like that!

  • I got excited when I got a girlfriend.

  • Congratulations. How did that happen?

  • On the way back home from the aquarium. We were quiet so I asked her to go out with me.

  • You asked her out there? - I did.

  • Cool! - I was aiming for that moment.

  • You succeeded. - Damn right I did.

  • Has he been more excitable since he has a girlfriend?

  • Since he got a girlfriend he is a lot more cheery.

  • He looks like he has fun every day.

  • My friends spontaneously took me on a trip!

  • We went on an open tour bus from Tokyo station. I didn't know where we were going.

  • We visited Ginza, the rainbow bridge, and the area around it.

  • We watched the sunset.

  • It was all a surprise trip.

  • I has so much fun.

  • You had no idea where you were going at all?

  • I didn't expect to be taken on a whole tour across Tokyo.

  • I saw a lot more things than I expected.

  • I was super excited.

  • What type of friend was it?

  • She's a friend from High School.

  • We both graduated university now but we are still good friends.

  • She celebrated my birthday with me and then said "how about we go on this bus!"

  • And that's how it went.

  • She had those tickets reserved? - No not at all.

  • She asked "what do you wanna do. Wanna go on a tour bus?"

  • And that's when we boarded the bus at Tokyo station that was leaving in 10 minutes.

  • In a way it was a surprise for both of us.

  • Not knowing were you are going can be exciting.

  • I didn't expect it to be that good. We saw the sunset over Tokyo and such.

  • And the view in Ginza and such.

  • Sounds fun but was that expensive?

  • No it wasn't. Around 1800 Yen or so.

  • It lasted for about one hour.

  • That's reasonable.

  • I also took my foreign friend here to a maid cafe in Akihabara.

  • She maids there did the ceremony where they...

  • say "moe moe kyun" over the food.

  • He copied them and that looked so funny. I think it was shocking and exciting for him.

  • I think the very first time I came to Japan, everything was exciting for me.

  • I think you're gonna experience the exact same thing when you come to Japan, everything

  • is gonna be new, everything is gonna be

  • exciting and you're gonna see the things that you wanted to see.

  • Enjoy that! It's a wonderful time and I think...

  • It's very important never to of the little wonders. I still get excited

  • when I got to Harajuku ... even though I go there a lot it's still magical.

  • For me one of the really exciting things recently are lucky bags.

  • I still open lucky bags all through the year so that's a big things on my personal channel

  • Because you don't know what's inside and that kind of mystery of like...

  • lucky bag mystery...

  • It's like a thing that I still find so exciting.

  • Like a surprise bag.

  • Or a mystery bag. You don't know what's in it...

  • You can take something out and go like "Uh this is awful" or you can take something out

  • and be like... "This is amazing!"

  • That's why I like that so much. Also I think a thing that

  • I will alywas be excited about...

  • is livestreams. The livestreams here on the Ask Japanese channel, the livestreams over

  • on my personal channel

  • I think livestreams are a thing that makes me

  • always so pumped and so excited.

  • And I...

  • when I do livestreams in the evening for example when I do Twitch livestreams

  • It makes me so excited.

  • That I can't sleep for an hour or two afterwards because

  • It's interacting with you guys, chatting with you guys...

  • I get really pumped, I get really excited so...

  • That's what makes me very excited and I hope you'll be there too

  • to join in in any future livestreams on this channel

  • or on my personal channel so

  • Be sure to tune in, we alyways try to do something different.

  • Would be lovely to see you there.

  • What gets you excited?

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  • I hope you enjoyed this video and I catch you soon for more stuff on Ask Japanese. Bye!

Lots of cheese!

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